Monday, 30 July 2012

Summer Board Book

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend! I have a board book to share today with a summer theme of things Tilda and Edwin do in the holidays :).

The cover: Tilda is exploring and checking on the bug life.

Picking some strawberries.

Riding her horse in the countryside.

Picking some flowers.

A day at the beach.

The board book is a Woodware 6 x 6 scalloped mini album which I've taken apart so that I have another three pages to make another some time. I was going for a more illustrative painted style for the backgrounds on these images as you would see in a children's book with a flatter look to them.

All the pages are painted with DecoArt paints over some texture paste. The texture paste is highlighted afterwards with black paint and there's black and white pen doodling around the edges. The flowers are Magnolia DooHickey Daisy dies which have been cut from watercolour card and painted with watercolours as are all the images. I added faux stitching, cut up words in the thought bubble DooHickey die cuts and doodling with a fine nibbed black pen. The book rings which were originally silver were coloured with black alcohol ink.

I'm speachless..Chris. your work is out of this world gorgeous. Everything is just perfect, your coloring of all images is awesome, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL. MAGNIFIQUE ET SPECTACULAIRE! I would say in french. Love the vintage style of your book, the doodling - hope this is the right word !- added on all images brings life and dimention. Congrats! and thanks for sharing, it is so inspiring. Hugs.

My goodness, you are such a artist, I love this book!! Your coloring is so stunning and then reading through each page I was thinking how cool is this. I was thinking about my own 4yr old or any kid would love your book. I am so insprired by you.

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